Room Size and 7.1

**the_diyr** · **10-13-09, 11:38 AM**

The left sub is a yamaha 10 inch powered sub that I bought 2 years ago on sale for about 100.00 the floor firing sub box is an altec lansin that I picked up at goodwill for $2.00 .. The 8 inch sub was in great shap but the amp was blown so I had a amp from a realistic sub that I put in it . It is 75 watt so I set both sub to about the same volume,, I still have a ton of work to do .. Build better speaker stands , new Mids and tweets for the Fisher Speakers , Build a Rack for my equipment.. Just a never ending story.. Thanks for the comp...

**tcarcio** · **10-13-09, 12:28 PM**

Sorry , my bad. In that link you posted if you scroll down there is a sub box that I realize now is someone elses.

**the_diyr** · **10-13-09, 10:20 PM**

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A little more of what I am doing.. I never can get surround sound out of my computer .. but the stereo sound sounds a lot better .. Plus with my sound card I can use a program that came with it to set the room sounds up.

Also my graphics card was hooked to the tv with s video from the graphics card for a while and picture quality sucked but then I got a HDMI to DVI cable and the picture quality is much better .. Probably going to buy a pci-e ( HD graphics card with HDMI out ) 69.00 on ebay for a 512mb card

**the_diyr** · **10-21-09, 08:40 PM**

Ok i am putting this here because it is driving me mad.. When I play a non digital audio source, or an album my pioneer 7.1 system has so much bass it drives me nuts.. Also the fac t that my wife is into old movies that are not surround and not HD.. and the sound is awful... But surround sound sounds great for 5.1 movies.. Do I have to constantly change settings on the pioneer everytime my wife bust out into watching old movies and countless hours of joyce meyer and other nut female preachers ... They all sind awful in stereo... So I tried hooking up the red and white rca as well as the optical as well as the HDMI.. It does sound a liitle better but I think the A/V reciever is having a problem trying to decode older movies and audio formats .. Then again at 43 years old I may be going deaf.

**eugovector** · **10-21-09, 09:42 PM**

I have to think it's related to how your AVR is handling the LFE or lack thereof. Is the excess bass coming from your mains, sub, or both?

**the_diyr** · **10-21-09, 09:47 PM**

Coming mainly from the sub .. I turned the subwoofer to 80hz instead of 100hz .. I may have been getting a little subwoofer distortion.. I am going to go thru it again with the spl meter again tommorrow.. I may just have to adjust it a little to get a happy medium between the digital audio and the analog audio...

**eugovector** · **10-22-09, 12:18 AM**

If your AVR is set to send LFE to both the sub and mains, you might make sure that is properly attenuated or off all together. Let us know what you find out with the SPL meter.

**the_diyr** · **10-22-09, 12:51 PM**

Well it is time to save up money .. The Fisher's are not cutting the mustard.. I guess I will try a full range build for the front .. I got everything set right again and it sounds OK but not just like I want it.. So Give me a week and I will start my full range build .. I found some nice 1x6 oak planks on craiglist so I my go pick some up.. I am thinking about using a 5.25 driver.. ???

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